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Cbus hits $100bn in member assets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... infrastructure asset class is expected to remain strong in 2025 with a positive return outlook driven by continued demand for quality assets and desire for existing asset owners to recycle their respective portfolios. In addition, Chatfield pointed to ...

Super failures, greenwashing: ASIC's key issues in 2025

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... market confidence or lead to misinformed investment decisions; specifically pointing to internal system failures and poor-quality climate-relate financial disclosures. "High quality, consistent and comparable information about reporting entities' climate-related ...

Chief executive misbehaviour stifles investment returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... reports - when making investment decisions, the firm added. Investors would be wise to sharpen their focus on management quality and corporate governance to avoid being caught off guard, as companies with poorer corporate behaviour and culture have "consistently ...

Scarcity Partners enlists former Ophir Asset Management chief

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
... for both Scarcity and our portfolio companies," Whittingham said. Chirakis said he is excited to work alongside the high-quality team at Scarcity Partners - which has experience from asset managers including Pinnacle Investment Management, Hyperion Asset ...

RBA is 'overachieving' on inflation target: GSFM

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
... on the record in saying that the RBA will cut rate in February, and I still think that is the case," Miller said. "The quality of the employment growth is largely contributed by the public sector, as the private sector is still very weak. But the reality ...

Bell Financial absorbs 75k Macquarie accounts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
... platforms under its own name since 2014. "This new agreement builds on our long-term partnership and is a testament to the quality of Bell's online share trading technology and services," Selvarajah said. "It strengthens our position in the market and ...

Australian Unity hires from Centuria

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
... Plant was appointed head of direct healthcare property, with responsibility for managing the business' portfolio of high-quality assets and related stakeholder engagement. Plant has been with AUHPT since 2014 and served as assistant fund manager since ...

Grattan Institute renews calls for best-in-show super funds, partial annuitisation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... better retirement incomes than solely account-based pensions drawn at the minimum is unnecessary and unrealistic. Good-quality advice would steer most retirees towards annuitising some of their super anyway, just at more cost than better system guidance," ...

Subscription EVs attract HESTA, IFM interest

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... million from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, which will be used to add thousands more vehicles. "Splend is a high quality, rapidly growing business with a leadership position in Australia and strong growth in the UK. We believe its continued growth ...

MUFG Pension & Market Services awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... administration and technology services. By combining forces, we aim to reshape the industry and set new benchmarks for service quality and innovation," Singh said. GESB recently announced it renewed its superannuation administration services mandate ...